- The document examines various Islamic traditions regarding the life of Abraham and analyzes them critically by comparing them to biblical accounts and historical evidence. - It finds numerous inconsistencies and factual errors in the Islamic narratives, such as Abraham witnessing events that occurred centuries after his lifetime. - The document argues that Muhammad fabricated stories about Abraham to try to establish Abraham as a proto-Muslim and link Islam to prior monotheistic faiths, but in doing so undermined Islam's credibility.

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DISHONEST ABE
“Abraham was tested by circumcision, shaving his pubic hair,
washing the fore-part and rear, using a toothstick,
and plucking his armpits.”
Nothing is more essential to Islam’s credibility than Muhammad’s ver-
sion of Abraham. Islam must prove that he was a Muslim, that his God was
Allah, and that he worshiped in Mecca. Recognizing this, Muhammad tried
desperately to make the case.
We pick up the trail in Tabari’s History with something that sounds like
Hitler’s idea of Arian supremacy. Tabari II:21 “Ham [Africans] begat all those who are
black and curly-haired, while Japheth [Turks] begat all those who are full-faced with small
eyes, and Shem [Arabs] begat everyone who is handsome of face with beautiful hair. Noah
prayed that the hair of Ham’s descendants would not grow beyond their ears, and that
whenever his descendants met the children of Shem, the latter would enslave them.” The
slavery theme keeps reappearing because Muhammad used the slave trade to
finance the spread of Islam. Turning Noah into a racist to justify such behav-
ior wasn’t beneath Islam’s prophet—but then again, little was.
We’re going to pass by Muhammad’s history lesson on the mythical tribes
of Ad and Thamud. Their battles with the Almighty seemed important to
Muhammad as he dedicated scores of Hadith to them. But I want to focus on
the Islamic path to Abraham as it lies at the core of the prophet’s deception.
Tabari II:50 “Nimrod was Abraham’s master and wanted him burned…. The first king who
ruled over all the earth was Nimrod. There were four such kings who ruled all the earth:
Nimrod, Solomon bin David, Dhu’l-Qarnain, and Nebuchadnezzar—two believers [Mus-
lims] and two infidels.” Nimrod only ruled a city-state. Solomon’s kingdom only
included a portion of the Middle East. Nebuchadnezzar’s realm, like that of
Dhu’l-Qarnain, as Alexander the Great, was large, but neither ruled over the
whole earth. As for two of them being Muslims—Muhammad and Allah are
again mistaken. There wasn’t a Muslim in the batch.
According to Ishaq’s Sira: Tabari II:50 “Allah desired to send Abraham as an argu-
ment against his people and as a messenger to His worshippers since there had been no
messengers between Noah and Abraham except Hud and Salih [the mythical rulers of Ad
and Thamud].” If that’s true, there couldn’t have been Muslim worshippers. A

2. thousand years had passed with no religious communication. Allah said he
destroyed the Ad and Thamud and he never suggests Abraham visited them.
So in an attempt to establish a religious context for his scam, Muhammad
destroyed it. The scenario he has just laid out precludes worshippers, and with-
out them, all he has shared thus far concerning the establishment of Islamic
rites and the veneration of the Ka’aba, could not have been passed along.
“As time drew near, the astrologers came to Nimrod, saying, ‘We have learned from our
lore that a boy will be born in this city of yours who will be called Abraham. He will aban-
don your religion and break your idols in such and such a month and year.” Muslims are
attempting to bestow on Abraham, whom they view as the father of Islam,
the same kind of birth announcement enjoyed by Yahshua, the founder of
Christianity, but they didn’t have a clue when either man actually lived.
Both secular and scriptural histories tell us that Nimrod died centuries
before Abraham was born. The clay tablets that were unearthed near ancient
Babylon starting in the late 19th century suggest Nimrod died violently at the
age of forty around 2800 B.C., two generations after the great flood. Apart
from the Bible, Abraham is not as well known. Yet, archeologists have been
able to confirm the Biblical accounting of when he lived by unearthing the
places the Scriptures say he visited or that coexisted during his time. They
have found dozens of corroborating artifacts that confirm Abraham lived
between 2100 B.C. and 1950 B.C. These men were not contemporaries.
Since their lives were separated by 700 years, everything Muhammad claims
about them is both suspect and uninspired. Tabari II:53 “Another story about Abraham
is that a star rose over Nimrod so bright that it blotted out the light of the sun and the moon.
He became frightened and called the magicians, soothsayers, and prognosticators to ask
about it. They said, ‘A man will arise in your domain whose destiny is to destroy you and
your rule.’ Nimrod lived in Babylon but he left his town and moved to another, forcing all
men to go with him but leaving the women. He ordered that any male child who was born
should be slain.” This is a blatant, although not believable, rip-off of the star of
Bethlehem that directed wise men to Christ and of King Herod killing the
male children born that year in Bethlehem.
The Bible tells us that Abram, the future Abraham, was born in Ur, the
great Chaldean city, to Terah. His journey to the Promised Land is detailed
in Genesis 11. Muhammad says: “Some task in Babylon came up for which Nimrod
could trust only Azar, the father of Abraham. He sent him to do the job, saying, ‘See that
you do not have intercourse with your wife.’ Azar said to him, ‘I am too tenacious in my reli-
gion for that.’ But when he entered Babylon he visited his wife and could not control him-
self. He had intercourse with her and fled to a town called Ur.”
Tabari II:53 “When Abraham’s mother found that she was in labor she went out to a cave
near her house and bore Abraham. She shut the cave up on him and returned home. Later
when she went to see how he had done, she found him alive, sucking his thumb. Allah
placed Abraham’s sustenance in it.” Muhammad was abandoned by his mother at
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3. birth, so he invented this story to mimic his own childhood.
Tabari II:51 “Abraham had been in the cave for fifteen months when he said to his mother,
‘Take me out that I may look around.’” Why bother? After fifteen months in a cave,
he would have been blind. “So she took him out one evening and he looked about and
thought of the creation of the heavens and the earth and said, ‘Verily the One who created
me and fed me is my Lord—I have no other god but Him.’” Thus, an infant conceived
the first pillar of Islam. But alas, the Hadith and Qur’an quickly plummet into
spiritual delirium. “He looked out at the sky and saw a star. ‘This is my Lord.’ He fol-
lowed it with his eyes until it disappeared. When it set he said, ‘I do not like things that
set.’ Then he saw the moon rising and said, ‘This is my Lord.’ [Perceptive kid—Allah began
his life as a moon deity.] And he followed it until it disappeared. When it set, he said, ‘If my
Lord did not guide me, I would have gone astray.’” A fifteen-month-old baby converts
from paganism to Islam by watching the moon. Sure, why not.
Like so many Islamic Traditions, these were written to provide the context
the Qur’an lacks. Let’s dive into the 6th surah to hear what Allah has to say:
006.074 “When Abraham said to his sire, Azar: ‘Why do you take idols for gods? I find you
and your people in manifest error.’ Thus We showed Abraham the visible and invisible
kingdom of the heavens and earth that he might be of those who are sure and believe. So
when night overshadowed him, he saw a star. Said he: ‘This is my Lord?’ When it set, he said:
‘I do not love the setting ones.’ When he saw the moon rising, he said: ‘This is my Lord?’
When it set, he said: ‘If my Lord had not guided me I would be of the erring people who go
astray.’” This is embarrassing. The conversation condemns the message. After
Allah showed Abraham his kingdom so that he might be sure, the Islamic babe
turns to the sky, the source of idols, and says, “This is my Lord.” What is it about
Islam that turns everyone’s brains to mush—Allah’s included?
006.078 “Then when he saw the sun rising, he said: ‘My Lord is surely this, the greatest
of all.’ So when it set, he said: ‘O my people, I am through with those. Surely I have turned
my face toward Him who originated the heavens and earth, and I am not a polytheist.’”
The sun, the most popular pagan deity, is now god, never mind it was the moon
in the preceding Tradition. After becoming an idolater, he magically turns and
says he’s through with idols. And after asking a star, the moon, and the sun if
they were god, he says he’s not a polytheist. All the context in the world, all
the explanations ever written, can’t undo the damage the Qur’an does to itself.
Tabari explains it this way: Tabari II:51 “When day came upon Abraham and the sun
rose, he saw the greatness of the sun and saw that here was something with more light
than he had ever seen before. He said, ‘This is my Lord! This is greater!’ And when it set he
exclaimed, ‘O my people, I am free from all the things which you associate with Him.’”
Muhammad wants us to believe that all it took to “free” this fifteen-month
old baby from pagan idolatry, worshiping the sun, moon, and stars, to
become a Muslim in the oneness of Allah was for the sun to set.
006.080 “His people disputed with him.” What people? Depending upon whether
you believe Muhammad’s Hadith or Allah’s Qur’an, he’s with his mom or dad.
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4. He’s a toddler, having just emerged from a cave for the first time. “He said: ‘Do
you dispute with me respecting Allah? He has guided me. I do not fear those that you set
up with Him, unless my Lord pleases; my Lord comprehends all things; will you not mind?’”
Let me see if I can decipher this. Over the course of one brief conversa-
tion, dishonest Abe tells his father that he and his people are in manifest error,
and that idolatry is bad. After visiting heaven he says that big bright shiny
things are gods, and that he is not a polytheist. Then he disputes with people
he has never seen about their religion. He even says that he doesn’t fear their
gods, unless of course, his god wants him to fear them. And, wouldn’t you
know it, after such drivel, he tells them to mind him. This Qur’anic passage
destroys the Islamic myth of divine inspiration, for this is not some minor
event in the life of Islam. Abraham is purported to be the religion’s founder,
and this is his moment of awakening.
006.081 “Why should I fear what you have set up with Allah, that for which He has not
sent down to you any authority.” We can only assume that the Abe babe is speak-
ing of idols his people have erected in shrines like the Ka’aba. “O my father! Why
do you worship that which neither hears, nor sees, nor can in any way help you?” Even
something as simple as this indicts Muhammad. It’s a rip off. As we shall see
in upcoming chapters, Arabian Hanifs (monotheists) during Muhammad’s
day had it figured out. They had said of the rock idols in the Ka’aba, “Why do
you worship that which neither hears, nor sees, nor can help you in any way?”
“Do you reject my gods, Abraham? If you do not cease this, I shall stone you.” As sick
as this sounds, it depicts Muslim behavior. If a son renounces Islam, his
father will kill him. One of my friends, a former Muslim, had this very thing
happen to him. Hearing the news, his loving father reached for his gun and
fired it at his son, narrowly missing him. Mark Gabriel, who holds a Ph.D. in
Islamic History, wrote a book about his experience called: Islam and Terror.
006.083 “And this was Our argument which we gave to Abraham against his people. And
We gave him Ishaq (Isaac) and Yah’qub (Jacob) [Oops. Abraham was given Isaac and Ish-
mael. Jacob came later]; each did We guide, and Nuh (Noah) did We guide before, and of
his descendants, David and Solomon, and Job and Joseph and Moses and Aaron; and thus
do We reward those who do good (following Muhammad’s example in the Sunnah). And
Zachariah and Yahya (John), Isa (Jesus) and Elias; every one was of the good [i.e. Muslims];
And Ishmael and Elisha and Jonah and Lot and every one We preferred above men and
jinn.” One of the many problems with the Qur’an is that Allah was no brighter
than Muhammad. Job was a gentile and a contemporary of Abraham. As
such he could neither be Abe’s descendant nor follow Solomon.
I am reasonably certain that the Yathrib Jews read their scriptures correctly
to Muhammad. But having a poor memory, and a heinous agenda, he got
them all fouled up. I don't say that to be mean spirited, just informative.
Muhammad will convict himself of having a heinous agenda a thousand
times over before we are through. As prophets go, he was pretty pathetic.
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5. Returning to the Islamicized Abraham, Ibn Ishaq tells us: Tabari II:52 “Then
Abraham returned to his father Azar, having seen the right course. He had recognized his
Lord.” Actually, all he had done was recognize who his Lord wasn’t. And
while that may sound picky, that’s all Muhammad really did. Ultimately, he
promoted the largest of the Meccan rock idols, Allah, and denounced the
rest. “He was free of the religion of his people, but he did not tell them that.” This, too,
is revisionism for the sake of Muhammad. Allah’s Messenger kept quiet
about his first “revelation” for several years.
One of the most repetitive and damning indictments in the Qur’an comes
from the Meccans. They recognized that Muhammad’s notion of casting the
smaller Ka’aba idols aside so that the largest idol could be feared as the one
true god was lunacy. A big stone was no more god than a bunch of little ones.
Ishaq:38 “Every house had an idol. When Allah sent Muhammad with the message of
monotheism, the Quraysh said: ‘Would he make many gods into one god? This is a strange
thing.’” Muhammad, ever in character, changed the story of the great Hebrew
patriarch Abraham to make his behavior seem inspired.
This sorry tale is chronicled in both the Hadith and Qur’an. Tabari II:55 “His
father told him, ‘Abraham, we have a festival. If you go to it you will learn to like our reli-
gion.’ The festival came and they went to it. On the way Abraham threw himself down and
said, ‘I am sick. My foot hurts.’ When they went away he called to the last of them. ‘I shall
deal with your idols after you have gone away and turned your backs.’ Abraham went to the
house of the gods which was in a great hall. Opposite the entrance was a great idol, and
at his side a smaller one, and next to him a smaller one, and so on.” Too bad Allah did-
n’t get out more. He would have known that in Abraham’s day the Temple of
Ur housed just one god—Sin—a masculine moon deity like himself. Unlike
the Ka’aba, there weren’t a bunch of rock idols lying around.
“Azar made a living making the idols which his people worshipped, and he employed
Abraham to sell them. Abraham would call out, ‘Who will buy what will be of no use to
him?’ So they became unsellable. He would take them to the river and point their heads
at it and say, ‘Drink!’ mocking his people. At length his mocking spread about among the
inhabitants of his town, although Nimrod did not hear of it. Then when the time seemed
right to Abraham to reveal to his people the error of what they were doing, and to tell them
of Allah’s command and of how to pray, he glanced up at the stars and said, ‘I feel sick.’
They fled from him when they heard it, but Abraham had only said it to make them go away
so that he could do what he wanted with their idols. When they left he went to the idols and
brought them food. He said, ‘Will you not eat? What is the matter? Why do you not speak?’
reproaching their falsely elevated position and mocking them.”
If you’ve got one, open your Qur’an to the 37th surah. So as not to take
Allah’s word out of context, let’s read from the beginning, picking up the
highlights as we go along. Seeing Allah as he really is will help elucidate the
Islamic mystery. The peace-loving god tells his troops: “By those (angels) arranged
in battle ranks who are strong in repelling and thus proclaim the Message of Allah! Verily,
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6. your Ilah (God) is one!” Thank god for small favors. 037.006 “We have decked the lower
heaven with stars to protect them against all rebellious evil spirits, and provide security
from every forward devil. So they cannot listen to the highest chiefs for they are pelted
from every side, repulsed; they are under a perpetual torment, being driven off. Except
such as they snatch away something by stealth, but then they are pursued by a flaming fire
of piercing brightness.” In Islam, stars are used to guard against forward devils.
The Islamic Ilah (God) named Allah would have us believe that he dissuades
and torments “evil spirits” with physical objects.
037.011 “Just ask their opinion (Muhammad). [Whose opinion—the stars’, the rebellious
evil spirits’?] Are they the more difficult to create, or the other beings We have created?
Them have We created out of a sticky clay! Are they stronger as a creation? Truly dost thou
marvel, while they ridicule.” Nay, I dost both marvel and ridicule. 037.013 “When they
are admonished, pay no heed. When they see a Sign, [they] turn it to mockery, and incite
one another to scoff. And say, ‘This is nothing but evident sorcery!’” I agree.
037.016 “What! When we die, and become dust and bones, shall we be raised up and
also our fathers of old? Say (Muhammad): ‘Yea, and ye shall then be humiliated: Ye, in
truth; and ye will be brought low.’” I suppose some Muslim scholar thought trans-
lating the Qur’an into Elizabethan English would make it sound religious.
But lo, methinks it helpeth thee not. For your sake and mine, I will continue
to edit most of the archaic language out of the text. I have also made a habit
of correcting much of Allah’s grammar, punctuation, verbosity, and oblique
sentence structure. 037.019 “Then will be a single cry; and behold, they will stare! They
will say, ‘Woe to us! This is the Day of Doom.’ This you denied! Assemble the wrong-doers
and their wives and the things they worshipped besides Allah, then lead them to the fierce
flaming fires of Hell.” Even cleaned up, the message is repulsive.
Allah stoops to interrogate his captives. 037.024 “But stop them, for they are to be
questioned. ‘What is the matter with you that you do not help each other?’ Nay, but this
day they make full submission.... ‘The sentence has come against us: we shall taste the
punishment.’” Remember, according to Islam, people are never given a choice.
They are predestined at birth to perish in hell’s fire. Thus, this questioning is
for Allah’s entertainment. 037.033 “Truly, they will all share at the Penalty of Doom. That
is how We shall deal with the Mujrimun (non-Muslims). For when they were told that there
is no ilah (god) but Allah, they puffed themselves up with pride and were scornful. They
said: ‘What, shall we give up our alihah (gods) for the sake of an insane possessed poet?’”
This was “revealed” so Muhammad could lash out at the Meccans. They
called him insane for turning many idols into one god. They said he was
demon-possessed due to the hellish tone of his Qur’an.
As you might expect, Allah didn’t see it that way. Muhammad’s alter ego
had but one spokesperson. If he faltered, Allah crumbled with him. 037.037 “Nay,
he has come with the truth, and he confirms the Message of the messengers before him.
You shall indeed taste the grievous penalty of painful doom.” Tease Muhammad and
Allah will burn you. It’s the Qur’an’s never-ending taunt.
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7. 037.040 “Save the chosen slaves of Allah; For them there is a known provision: Fruits,
Delights; they will be honored in the Gardens of Pleasure, on thrones facing one another.
Round them will be passed a cup of pure white wine, delicious to the drinkers, free from
ghoul (hurt) or intoxication, nor shall you be made mad or exhausted thereby.” We’ve got
the thrones and Allah’s special brew, now all we need are the virgins. “And with
them will be Qasirat-at-Tarf (virgin females), restraining their glances (desiring none but
you), with big, beautiful eyes. As if they were (sheltered) eggs, preserved.”
If the martyrs get virgins, what do their victims get? 037.054 “He said: ‘Would
you like to look down?’ He looked down and saw him in the midst of the Fire, in the depths
of Hell. He said: ‘You nearly caused me to perish! Had it not been for my Lord, I would have
been among those brought there [the suicide bomber said to the innocent children he had
blown to pieces]!’” Allah wanted the mass murderers to know: 037.059 “Except for
your former death, you shall not be punished. This is the supreme triumph! For the likes of
this let us strive. That is the better entertainment.”
Hell’s torments sound a lot like what might have occurred around a desert
campfire. 037.063 “For We have truly made it as a trial to torment the disbelievers. Zaqqum
is a horrible thorn tree that grows in Hell. The shoots of its fruit-stalks are like the heads of
devils. Truly they [non-Muslims] will eat it and fill their bellies with it. On top of that they
will be given a mixture made of boiling water to drink especially prepared. Then they shall
be returned to the Blazing Fire,” Allah, Islam’s terrorist ilah proclaimed.
We have finally arrived at the passage the Hadith was trying to illuminate.
We wanted to find out why Abraham said he was sick and why he was playing
with idols. 037.083 “Surely among those who followed His Way (Islam) was Abraham. He
came to his Lord with a sound heart. He said to his father and to his folk, ‘What is that
which you worship? Is it a falsehood—alihah (gods) besides Allah that you desire?’” The
Qur’an didn’t define what his “Way” was. Islam is supposed to be the religion
of Abraham yet the Qur’an never explains what that might be.
037.087 “‘Then what is your idea about the Lord of men and jinn?’ Abraham cast a glance
at the Stars. And he said, ‘I am indeed sick!’” Abe’s question about the Lord of the
worlds followed by the capitalization of “Stars” is a problem. In the Qur’an,
capitalization is a tribute to deity. Second, why did Abraham need to lie to
accomplish his god’s agenda? One of my translations actually alters the text
by adding a parenthetical to obfuscate this problem: “Surely I am sick (of your wor-
shipping these).” Another says “sick (with plague).” Even Muhammad calls Abe a
liar. Tabari II:63 “The Messenger said: ‘Abraham told three lies in his life. Two of them were
about Allah—his saying “I feel sick” and his saying “The chief idol is the one who did it.”’”
037.090 “They turned their backs and went away. He turned to their gods secretly and
said, ‘Will you not eat?’ ‘What is the matter with you that you don’t speak?’” Deprived of
place, time, and circumstance, this doesn’t make sense. Where was he? Why
did he go to these gods? What are their names? And since Allah never spoke
or ate, the revisionist Abe is being hypocritical. The following Hadith, stolen
from the Talmud, scrambles to make sense of this: Tabari II:55 “The people prepared
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8. food and placed it before the gods, saying, ‘When we come back the gods will have blessed
our food and we will eat.’ When Abraham saw them with the food, he said, ‘Will you not
eat? And when they did not answer, he said, ‘What ails you that you don’t speak?’ Then he
attacked them. He took a piece of iron and cut off each idol’s extremities. Then when only
the largest idol was left, he tied the axe to its hand. When the people came to get their
food and saw their gods in this state, they said, ‘An evildoer has done this to our gods.’”
That was from Muhammad’s Sunnah by way of the Jewish Talmud. This is
from Allah’s Qur’an: 037.093 “He turned upon them secretly, attacking, striking (them)
with the right hand. Then came (people) with hurried steps, and faced (him). He said:
‘What! do you worship what you hew out? But Allah has created you and your handwork!’”
Let’s turn to the salient portion of the 21st surah, named “The Prophets,” to
make certain we are looking at Islam’s poison pill from all possible sides.
021.051 “We bestowed on Abraham correctness of conduct, and well were We acquainted
with him. Behold, he said to his father and his folk, ‘What are these images, to which you
are devoted?’ They said, ‘We found our fathers worshipping them.’ He said, ‘Indeed you
have been in manifest error—you and your fathers.’ They said, ‘Have you brought us the
truth, or are you some jester?’” This Qur’anic indulgence also emerges out of the
blue without reference to the audience, place, time, or religion. Devoid of this
context the passage is senseless today. Yet in Mecca, the meaning would have
been crystal clear. Muhammad was being recast as Abraham.
021.056 “He said, ‘Nay, your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and earth, He created them
and I am a witness to this. I have a plot for your idols and will do something against them
after you go away and turn your backs.’ So he broke them to pieces, (all) but the biggest
of them, that they might turn to it.” A second translation says: “Then he reduced them
to fragments, all save the chief of them, that haply they might have recourse to it.”
This is one of the most incriminating verses in the Qur’an. Muhammad
did this very thing. The prophet took the largest of the pagan idols of the
Ka’aba—Allah—and promoted it to the exclusion of the others. He broke the
smaller rock gods and elevated the Black Stone so that his people “might turn
to it.” It was as if the early Greeks had broken the statues of Athena, Posei-
don, and Hermes so that they could worship the one true god Zeus. How was
the biggest idol any more “god” than the other imposters?
While I’ll continue to convey Islam’s version of dishonest Abe to illustrate
how Muhammad crafted his religious scam, I would be remiss if I didn’t credit
the prophet with his first miracle. He just pounded a nail into his own coffin.
The Qur’anic story continues with these uninspired words: 021.059 “They said,
‘Who has done this to our alihah (gods)?’ ‘He is a mischief-monger.’ ‘We heard a youth talk
of them called Abraham.’ ‘Then bring him before us that he may testify.’ They said, ‘Are you
the one who did this?’ He said: ‘No, it was done by the biggest idol! Ask the other idols if
they can speak!’…They were utterly shamed and confounded. ‘You know they do not
speak.’ He said: ‘What! Do you then serve besides Allah what brings no profit, nor can
harm you? ‘Fie [?] upon you, and upon the things that you worship besides Allah! Have you
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9. no sense?’ They said, ‘Burn him and protect our gods.’” Since Allah never spoke, why
didn’t that shame Muhammad? And why would the supposed patriarch of
monotheistic Islam tell his people that a pagan god smashed lesser idols?
Would that not make the idol real? Moreover, the Muhammadized Abraham
called a “god” false because it “cannot harm you.” The implication is that
Allah is real because he’s fixated on sadistic torments. That’s not good.
Now that we have an argument raging, it’s time to reshape Abraham of Ur
into the image of Muhammad of Mecca. For this we will bounce between the
37th and 21st surahs. 037.097 “They said, ‘Build him a furnace, and fling him into the blaz-
ing red-hot fire!’ They then sought a plot against him, but We made them the ones most
humiliated! And he said: ‘Surely I fly to my lord; He will guide me.’” When the townsfolk
of Mecca developed their plot and tried to burn Muhammad’s britches, he
flew off to Allah in his dreams. He jumped on al-Buraq, an imaginary winged
steed, half ass and half donkey (like its rider), and cruised to heaven by way
of Jerusalem. Although he humiliated himself with his tale of derring-do,
Muhammad also claimed that it was really the Meccans who were dashed.
021.069 “We said, ‘O Fire, be cool and safety for Abraham!’ Then they sought a strata-
gem against him and wished to set a snare, but We made them the ones that lost most!”
I know Allah loves plots, but this is ridiculous. Why would the townsfolk design
a plot to snare him after they were burning him? 021.071 “But We delivered him and
Lot to the land [of Israel] which We have blessed for men and jinn.” This must be a joke.
Allah has blessed Israel? Was that the blessing of the PLO or Islamic Jihad?
As the Islamic Abraham flees the fire, we are confronted with an odd tran-
sition and unbelievable dialog. 037.100 “‘Lord, grant me a righteous (son)!’ So We gave
him the good news of a boy ready to suffer and forbear. Then, when (the son) reached (the
age of) (serious) work with him, he said: ‘Son! I see in a vision that I offer you in sacrifice:
Now what is your view!’ (The son) said: ‘O my father! Do as you are commanded: you will
find me, if Allah so wills, one practicing Patience and Constancy!’” Even with nine
words artificially inserted into the text by the translators for clarification, this
verse is bizarre. It is as if Muhammad overheard a half dozen Bible stories
and tried to tie them all together in one paragraph. Over the course of five
sentences, he takes us from a gang of nameless people building a furnace to
terrorize Abe to having him terrorize his son. And there is a significant detail
missing—the son’s name isn’t stated because Muhammad can’t decide which
son should be sacrificed or even where or when the event occurred.
037.103 “When they had surrendered (to Allah), and he had flung him on his face, We
called out, ‘Abraham! You have fulfilled the vision! Lo! that was a clear test. And We ran-
somed him with a momentous sacrifice, with a tremendous victim!’” Allah, the coun-
terfeit god, continues to falsify history. 037.110 “Thus do We reward the doers of good.
For he was one of Our believing slaves. And We gave him the good news of the birth of
Isaac, a prophet among the good ones. We blessed him and Isaac: but of their progeny are
(some) that do right, and (some) that obviously do wrong.” As a reward for Abraham’s
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10. faithfulness, Allah predicts the birth of the son he almost sacrificed. Brilliant.
Somewhere, sometime, someone may have done a worse job plagiarizing,
but it’s hard to imagine. The omissions, the lack of place, time, and purpose
degrade one of the Bible’s great events. Muhammad, I mean Allah, was try-
ing to rip off, I mean utilize, the story of Abraham and Isaac. The original
provides such a refreshing change from this drivel it’s worth a quick review.
First, Yahweh sets the scene and unfolds the story chronologically. Genesis
chronicles the life of Abraham, the places he lived, the people he encoun-
tered, as well as the birth of his two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. Yahweh had
told Abraham to send Ishmael out of the Promised Land, and the boy fell out
of Abraham’s life and Yahweh’s plans, fading into Biblical oblivion. As we
approach the 22nd chapter, God tells us that Abraham was living in Beersheba.
He had just returned from visiting the Philistines in Gaza. Within that con-
text, he speaks to him about Isaac, the patriarch’s miracle child from his wife
Sarah, the beneficiary of the covenant.
“Now it came about after these things, that Yahweh tested Abraham and
called to him, ‘Abraham.’ ‘Here I am.’ Yahweh said, ‘Take your son, your
only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him
there as a sacrifice on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.’” The
Temple in Jerusalem was built on Mount Moriah by Solomon to commemo-
rate Abraham’s faith. Yahshua would be sacrificed there to save mankind. To
this day, it remains the most coveted place on earth. And it’s a three-day walk,
forty miles north by northwest, from Beersheba.
The details of the sacrifice were extraordinarily important to Yahweh.
This drama had to be played out exactly as it would happen to Yahshua. The
timing was important, too. The call came 2,000 years after the fall of Adam
and two thousand years before the Messiah endured the same fate. Remem-
ber, Yahweh gave us a pattern—six eras of creation followed by an era of rest.
It has been nearly 2,000 years since Christ’s sacrifice and the Bible tells us that
1,000 years of peace will follow his return.
“Abraham rose early, saddled a donkey and took two young men with him
along with Isaac. He split wood for the sacrifice and went to the place Yah-
weh had told him to go. On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw it
from a distance. Abraham said to his young men, ‘Stay here with the donkey.
The lad and I will go yonder. We will worship and return to you.’ Abraham
took the wood for the offering and laid it on his son. He took the fire and the
knife. (Fire is a metaphor for judgment and the knife is the implement of
atonement.) Walking together, Isaac said, ‘Father.’ He answered, ‘Here I am,
my son.’ ‘I see the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the offering?’
‘Yahweh will provide for himself the lamb for the offering.’” (Abraham
answers in God’s name—I Am, or Yahweh—every time he’s called.)
“When they came to the place of which Yahweh had told him; Abraham
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11. arranged the altar, bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the wood. Abraham
stretched out his hand and took the knife to sacrifice his son. But Yahweh
called to him from heaven, and said, ‘Abraham!’ ‘Here I am.’ ‘Do not stretch
out your hand against the boy and do nothing to him for I know that you love
Me, since you have not withheld your son, your only son from Me.’
“Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked and saw a ram caught in the
thicket by his horns; he took the ram and offered him in place of his son.
‘Because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, I will
greatly bless you and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heav-
ens…and through your descendents all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed.’ So Abraham returned to his men, and they arose and went together
to Beersheba where Abraham lived.”
Real scripture sets human events in context so that we can learn something.
Yahweh not only explained the nature of his relationship with man but also
explained what was to come, so when it happened, we might recognize the
significance.
Returning to the Sira, Ishaq replays Muhammad’s fantasy in front of
Nimrod rather than in the hall of idols. After daring the gods to talk, Abra-
ham is questioned by a king who died 700 years earlier. Tabari II:57 “‘Have you seen
this Allah whom you worship and whose worship you call others? Who is he?’ Abraham
replied, ‘My Lord, Who gives life and causes death.’ [The question was too tough so he did
the old political side step.] Nimrod said, ‘I give life and cause death.’” They chatted
about this for a while and then Abraham said, “‘Allah causes the sun to rise in the
East, so can you make it rise in the West?’ [Good thing he didn’t mention the chariot thing,
the angelic handholds, or the garment of luminosity.] Knowing that it was as Abraham
said, Nimrod was ashamed. He gave no answer; he knew that he was not able to do that.
Allah said, ‘Thus was the unbeliever abashed’—that is to say, the proof was against him.’”
Now that Muslims know that the sun does not follow Allah’s commands,
shouldn’t they be ashamed? Isn’t the proof clearly against them?
Tabari II:58 “They pushed Abraham into the furnace. Then the heavens and earth and all
creatures therein except humans and jinn shouted to Allah, ‘Our Lord! Abraham, the only
one on your earth who worships you, is being burned in fire for your sake. Permit us to help
him.’” Everybody talks to Allah except humans and demons. Who might they
be? “Allah answered, ‘I am his friend. I will protect him. O fire! Be coolness and peace for
Abraham.’” So following this fireside chat, we read: “Imprison him in a building and
cast him into Hell. … Abraham raised his head [and contradicted most all of what we have
read thus far], ‘You are alone in heaven and I am alone on earth.’…Had Allah not followed
the command for coolness with peace, Abraham would have frozen to death.”
Tabari II:62 “Abraham and Lot set out for Syria. On the way Abraham met Sarah, who was
the daughter of the king of Harran.” Actually, Abram left Ur for Haran traveling
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12. along the banks of the Euphrates River. He was accompanied by his father,
Terah, his wife and half sister, Sarai, and his nephew, Lot. “She had criticized
her people about their religion, so he married her, since he would be able to have a believ-
ing wife without having to convert her.” This verse implies one becomes a Muslim
by criticizing a religion. “Then Abraham went forth, a fugitive for the sake of his
Lord…to practice his religion and worship safely.” Why would Abe fear for his safety
after being saved from the fire? And why, if he was God’s messenger, did he
leave town? Shouldn’t he have stayed and tried to save the Babylonians?
No. Recasting Abraham was more important. Muhammad fled Mecca as
a fugitive. He ran to Yathrib, today’s Medina because some pagans promised
to protect him. The revisionist Abraham makes the cowardly Muhammad
appear more godly. “He settled in Harran. Then he left as a fugitive and traveled to
Egypt which was under the rule of one of the earliest Pharaohs.” Well, not exactly. The
first Egyptian ruler was probably the Scorpion King. He ruled more than five
hundred years before Abraham’s arrival.
“Sarah was one of the best humans ever. She would not disobey Abraham in any way.”
That was Muhammad’s idea of a perfect woman. From Bukhari’s Book of
Belief: Bukhari:V1B22N28 “The Prophet said: ‘I was shown the Hell Fire and the majority of its
dwellers were women who are disbelievers or ungrateful.’ When asked what they were
ungrateful for, the Prophet answered, ‘All the favors done for them by their husbands.’”
Next we find that Muhammad “Islamicized” Abram’s encounter with
Pharaoh. The only germane insight into this affair is Pharaoh’s gift of Hagar,
a “Coptic” slave-girl. Flunking history, the Allah/Muhammad duo didn’t
know that the Coptics were centuries away from arriving on the international
scene. Leaving Pharaoh, Abraham tells Sarah, “You are my sister in Allah, for in all
this land there are no Muslims except ourselves.” So what happened to all those
scrolls and to the nations who were worshiping around Allah’s House?
Some of what follows includes: “Hagar was of good appearance and Sarah gave
her to Abraham, saying, ‘Take her. You may take pleasure in Hagar, for I have permitted it.’”
“The Messenger said, ‘When you conquer Egypt treat its people well. They’re kin and deserve
protection.’”“AbrahamleftEgyptforSyria,forhewasafraidoftheEgyptiankingandanxious
about his evil ways. He settled in Beersheba in the land of Palestine, which is the desert
of Syria.” While most of this comes out of the Bible, it is flavored with the stan-
dard Muslim embellishments. One such addition is revealing. There was no
Palestine during Abraham’s life. The word was first composed by the Romans
2,100 years after Abraham died. The patriarch actually returned to Canaan,
named after his great, great uncle. (Folks with King James Bibles may think
Isaiah invented the name, but it’s an errant translation. Isaiah 14:29 uses
“pelesheth,” which means: “rolling in dust.”
Tabari II:66 “Abraham dug a well in Beersheba and said, ‘Drink from it and do not let a
menstruating woman dip water from it.’” Muhammad, a sexual libertine if there
ever was one, hated menstruation with a passion. As you know, he said that
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13. the reason Allah’s Stone turned from white to black was “it was fingered by
menstruating women.” And as sick as that sounds, this next Hadith is used
by Muslims to justify brutalizing their daughters. Tabari II:72 “Sarah swore to cut
something off of Hagar. ‘I shall cut off her nose, I shall cut off her ear—but no, that would
deform her. I will circumcise her instead.’ So she did that, and Hagar took a piece of cloth
to wipe the blood away. For that reason women have been circumcised and have taken
pieces of cloth down to today.”
“A menstruating woman came and dipped water from the well. Whereupon the water
dried up.” While I do not know the connection, the next paragraph begins:
“When Allah wished to destroy Lot’s people, he sent his messengers to Abraham, com-
manding him to leave their community. [Weren’t we just told that the only two Muslims
were Abe and Sarah? And Abraham was in Beersheba, not Sodom, so why ask him to
leave?] They had done vile deeds which no one in the two worlds had done before, disbe-
lieving their prophets and rejecting the good counsel which Lot brought them from their
Lord. The messengers were ordered to visit Abraham and give him and Sarah tidings of the
coming of Isaac and also of Jacob who was to come after him.” For Islam to have any
hope of being credible, the good news had to be of Ishmael not Isaac. Jacob
wasn’t Sarah’s kid, and neither Jacob nor Isaac are of any value to Islam.
At this point, the Muslim mathematicians jumped into the fray: Tabari II:68
“Abraham was sixteen when he was thrown into the fire, and Isaac was seven when he was
sacrificed, while Sarah was ninety when she bore him. The place of his sacrifice was about
two miles from Bayt Iliya [?]. When Sarah learned what Allah wanted with Isaac, she fell ill
for two days and died on the third. Sarah was 127 when she died.” Muslim math is as
confused as Muslim science: 127-90=7. So much for Arabic numerals.
Now we get to the important part. Tabari II:69 “After Ishmael and Isaac were born,
Allah commanded Abraham to build a House for Him in which He would be worshipped
and His name mentioned.” This must be the House that Allah didn’t build in
heaven, that Adam didn’t build, that Seth didn’t build, that Noah didn’t cir-
cumnavigate after Allah didn’t raise it above the flood.
“Abraham did not know exactly where he was expected to build it, since Allah had not
made this clear [nor anything else], and he felt uneasy in the matter. Some scholars say
that Allah sent the Sakinah to him [a rip-off of the Hebrew Shekhinah—the presence of
Yahweh] to show him where to build the House. The Sakinah went with Abraham, who was
also accompanied by his wife Hagar [Hagar was never Abraham’s wife and Muslims know
it.] and his son Ishmael, who was a small boy.”
The Tradition continues: “A man came to Ali bin Talib [Muhammad’s adopted son,
his son-in-law, future Caliph, and said, ‘Will you tell me about the House?’ He replied, ‘It
was the first built with the blessing of the standing-place of Abraham, and whoever enters
it will be safe. If you wish, I will tell you how it was built. Allah said to Abraham, “Build Me
a House on earth!” Abraham felt uneasy, so He sent the Sakinah. The Sakinah is a gale-
force wind with two heads, and one head followed the other until they reached Mecca and
coiled up at the site of the House, the way a snake coils.’”
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14. There are some who suggest that Allah is Satan, the snake who tempted
Adam. Using this metaphor to describe Allah’s presence supports that theory.
But whether or not that is true, this passage is troubling. Mecca is nearly a
thousand miles from Beersheba. These places are separated by rugged moun-
tains and virtually impassible desert. There is no plausible way a hundred-
year-old man, a slave girl, and a small child could have endured such a
journey. And this may be why neither Muhammad nor Allah ever bothered
to tell us how they accomplished the improbable voyage.
Tabari II:70 “Abraham was commanded to build where the Sakinah had rested. When he
had finished it except for one stone, [guess which one] the boy went away to build some-
thing else. But Abraham said, ‘No, I still need one more stone, as I still order you.’ So the
boy went looking, and when he found one he brought it to Abraham. But Abraham had
already set the Black Stone in place. He said, ‘Father, who brought you this Stone?’ Abra-
ham answered, ‘It was Gabriel who brought it to me from heaven.’ Then the two of them
finished it.” And I could have sworn that Muhammad told us that the stone
was brought to earth by Adam. (Tabari I:298) Was he lying then, or now?
Version two follows. It is also from Ali: “When he built it he went forth and left
Hagar and Ishmael behind. Ishmael became very thirsty. Hagar climbed Safa to look for
water but saw nothing. Then she went to Marwah, but the same thing happened. Then she
returned to Safa and looked around, but could not find Ishmael. After looking seven times
without success she said, ‘Ishmael, you have died where I cannot see you.’” You may be
wondering why she would look for water now and yet not have bothered dur-
ing the three-month desert crossing. You may be wondering why she would
look on the top of barren mountains rather than in a valley oasis. You may
be wondering why she repeated the process seven times, endangering the life
of her child. The answer is Islam. Muhammad needed to make the hajj rites
religious. Even today Muslims are required to run between these mountains
seven times. This explains why they do it.
However, there were problems. Abraham was supposed to be the father of
Islam. In this Hadith, he didn’t perform any of the rites. He merely re-re-re-
rebuilt the House and bailed. And the one who performed the Islamic ritual,
Hagar, left Islam’s most important child alone in the desert (as did Muham-
mad’s mother, not so coincidentally).
The sacred Meccan well of Zamzam needed Biblical credibility too, so...
“The boy scraped the ground with his finger and the spring of Zamzam welled up. Hagar
began to dam up the water, but Gabriel said, ‘Leave it.’”
In the versions that follow, we’re told, “Abraham and Ishmael set out for Mecca.
They took pickaxes without knowing where the house was. So Allah sent a wind, which had
two wings and a head of a snake. It swept the area around the Ka’aba clear for them to
build the foundations of the original House.” Not on the foundations, nor to see the
foundations, but to build the foundations of the original House. “This was when
Allah said, ‘When We prepared for Abraham the place of the House.’” [Qur’an 22:26]
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15. Since three contradictory versions were not enough: Tabari II:71 “Allah com-
manded Abraham to build the House and to call on humanity to perform the pilgrimage.
He left Syria with his son Ishmael and his mother Hagar. Allah sent the Sakinah which had
the power of speech. Abraham followed it to Mecca. When it came to the place of the
House, it spun round and round and said to Abraham, ‘Build on me! Build on me!’ [Allah’s
House was built upon a snake.] Abraham laid the foundations and raised the House, work-
ing with Ishmael until they came to the cornerstone. Abraham said, ‘O my little son, find
me a stone which I can put here as a sign to the people.’ He brought him a stone, but Abra-
ham did not like it. When Ishmael came back the cornerstone had already been brought
and put in place.” After failing math, science, and history, Islam is failing archi-
tecture. The cornerstone is the first rock laid, not the last. And cornerstones
are big and rectangular. The Allah Stone is small and oval. But again, it wasn’t
by accident. The Bible refers prophetically to Christ as “the cornerstone” and
you-know-who was desperate to be just like him.
How was Abraham supposed to call humanity to this place? The valley
was uninhabited. It was in the middle of a foreboding desert. The first settle-
ment wouldn’t be established for 2,500 years. Furthermore, the Islamic Abra-
ham was piling un-hewn, un-mortared rocks in a desert ravine. The first
heavy rain would have done it in.
Perhaps the fifth version of Abraham in Mecca will be more rational.
After circumcising Hagar, rather than cutting off her nose: Tabari II:72 “Sarah said,
‘She will not live in the same town with me.’ So Allah told Abraham to go to Mecca, where
there was no House at the time. He took Hagar and her son and put them there.… Allah
pointed out to Abraham the place to build the House [which would make Allah the snake].
…. When they reached Mecca, there was nothing there but acacia trees.” If that is true,
Muhammad’s earlier accounts must have been false. “The House at the time was
but a hill of red clay…. When he was done, Abraham headed back to Syria…. Gabriel dug
out Zamzam with his heel for Ishmael.” All I can assume is that neither Muhammad
nor Allah had a clue as to how the rock-pile got there. These wildly divergent
explanations are preceded and followed by dozens more. It is as if Muslims
think truth can be found in a pile of lies, if only the pile is big enough.
The Traditions move on to recount a variety of patriarchal Meccan visits.
Never mind that Mecca didn’t exist. Muhammad wants us to believe in fairy-
tales, in talking stones and trees: Tabari II:78 “And everything that heard him—stones,
trees, hills, and dust said, ‘Here I am, Allah, here I am.’”
Continuing to give meaningless ritual religious meaning: Tabari II:81 “Abraham
took Ishmael with him on the day of Tarwiyah [the 8th day of the hajj] and stayed at Mina
with the Muslims who were there. He prayed with them the prayers of midday, afternoon,
sunset and late evening. He spent the night and prayed the dawn prayer with them. In the
morning he went out to Arafat, and he spoke to them there until sunset drew near.” This
Hadith goes on to detail all of the remaining hajj rituals, all of which are still
performed by Muslims as if they were acting out Abraham’s example. “He
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16. showed them the sacrifice-ground of Mina, then performed the sacrifice and shaved his
head. From Mina he went into the crowd to show them how to perform the march around
the Ka’aba. Then he took them back to Mina to show them how to throw the stones, until
he had completed the pilgrimage and proclaimed it to mankind.”
Because the previous account was unbelievable for a myriad of reasons,
not the least of which was that there were no Muslims in Mecca, Muhammad
felt compelled to give it an angelic twist. Tabari II:82 “The Prophet said, ‘Gabriel came
to Abraham on the day of Tarwiyah and went with him to Mina, Arafat, back to Mina, threw
stones, performed the sacrifice, shaved his head, and finally hurried to the House. Then
Allah ordered Muhammad to ‘follow the religion of Abraham.’” [16:123] That must
mean that the religion of Abraham, Islam, can be defined as running between
two desolate mountains, tossing stones at stones, shaving one’s head, and
walking around a rock pile. And so it would be. Even today, Islam is known
for its rites and rituals rather than for its righteousness or reason.
As we turn the page, we find ourselves embroiled in the mother of all dis-
agreements. Even Muhammad and Allah are at odds: “The earliest sages of our
Prophet’s nation disagree about which of Abraham’s two sons it was that he was com-
manded to sacrifice. Some say it was Isaac, while other say it was Ishmael.” Mind you,
these are the very same people we are reliant upon for remembering the
Qur’an and passing it along orally so that other sages could jot it down. This
might well explain why it is so disjointed, contradictory, and I dare say silly,
(not to mention perverted, demented, and disgusting).
Tabari reports: “Both statements are supported by testimony related on the authority
of the Prophet. Both statements are equally sound since they both came from the Prophet.
Thus only the Qur’an [which also came from the Prophet] could serve as proof that the
account naming Isaac was clearly the more truthful of the two.” But if that is the case,
Islam falters, since it draws its legitimacy from Ishmael. Muhammad claims
that he was “prophet quality” because he was a direct descendant of Ishmael.
Tabari II:83 “‘We ransomed him with a tremendous victim,’ [Qur’an 37:107] refers to
Isaac.” But how can that be? In verse 104 Allah says, “We called out, ‘Abraham,
You have fulfilled your dream, thus do we reward the good. That was indeed a trying test.
So…We gave him the good news of Isaac.” How can Abe have nearly sacrificed
Isaac if the reward for fulfilling that trying test was Isaac?
In version two: “‘Messenger, repeat the knowledge Allah has given you about the
son of the two victims.’ The Messenger laughed and they said, ‘Who are the two victims?’
The Prophet said, ‘When Abd al-Muttalib was ordered to dig Zamzam [Not Ishmael or
Gabriel?], he vowed that if Allah would make it easy for him, he would sacrifice one of his
sons. The choice fell upon Abdallah, but his uncles prevented it, saying, ‘Ransom your son
with one hundred camels.’ So he did that, and Ishmael was the other victim.’” The first
boy spared, Abdallah, “Slave-to-Allah,” was Muhammad’s father. And as we
shall soon see, he botched that story as badly as he did the other.
Tabari II:84 “When Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac, Satan said, ‘By Allah, if I cannot
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17. deceive the people with this, I shall never be able to do it.’” Satan not only swears by
Allah, he says that the bogus connection between Abraham and Islam is his
best way to fool mankind. He was right!
It’s also interesting that the deception would be over sacrifice. Judaism,
Christianity, and all rational civilizations use sacrifice as the means to promote
justice and maintain spiritual or societal order. Commit a crime and you will
be required to sacrifice your money, your freedom, or your life. If crime is
without cost, anarchy reigns. In Judaism, the sacrificial rite for the forgiveness
of sin was rich in symbolism. It was based upon the “Mercy Seat” of the Arc
of the Covenant. And it was connected prophetically to the blood of an
unblemished lamb or dove. It’s all explained in the Torah. In Christianity,
Christ became the perfect lamb and sacrificed himself on our behalf.
But in Qur’anic Islam, there is no sacrifice. While the Sunnah perpetuates
Qusayy’s senseless slaughter, it’s for appeasement, not atonement.. There is no
symbolism, no prophetic implication, and no moral reason, as forgiveness is
capricious in Islam. And that is why totalitarian governments use draconian
measures to maintain order. Muhammad was an amoral thief empowered by
situational scriptures, so he failed to appreciate the necessity of sacrifice and
he never understood the Biblical concept of sacrificial atonement. It’s why
the “ransom of great sacrifice” mentioned in the Qur’an is left unexplained.
Tabari II:87 “Caliph Umar said, ‘I asked a former Jew, who was considered to be a great
Jewish scholar before he converted to Islam. He said, ‘Ishmael, by God, O Prince of Believ-
ers. The Jews know that, but they are envious of you Arabs because it was your father who
was named in Allah’s command and to whom Allah ascribed such merit.’”
Then why do you suppose the prophet said, “When Isaac grew up, Abraham
had a dream in which he was told, ‘Fulfill your promise that if Allah grants you a son by
Sarah you will sacrifice him. [In other words: “If you give me a son I’ll kill him for you.”]
Then he drew the knife across Isaac’s throat, but the knife did not scratch him, for Allah
had placed a sheet of copper on Isaac’s throat. When Abraham saw it he turned him over
and tried to cut him on the nape of his neck.’ This confirms Allah’s Qur’an: ‘When he sur-
rendered, he flung him down upon his face.’” [37:103]
In the next Hadith it’s Ishmael: “When Abraham was alone with his son on the
trail on Mt. Thabir [a mountain near Mecca], it is said he said to Ishmael, ‘O my son, I saw
in a dream that I was to sacrifice you. What do you think?’ Ishmael told him, ‘O my father,
Do as you were ordered…and sharpen your knife-blade so that it will finish me off quickly.”
The tests attributed to Abraham may be the low water mark for Islam’s
credibility thus far. This strand of pearls begins to unwind in Tabari’s second
volume, Prophets and Patriarchs: Tabari II:97 “After Allah had put Abraham to the test—
when Nimrod bin Cush tried to burn him in the fire, when He commanded him to sacrifice
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18. his son after he had become old enough to walk, when He made him raise the foundations
of the House, and devote himself to its rituals—after all of this, He put Abraham to the test
with still further commands which He has mentioned. He said, ‘And when his Lord tried
Abraham with commands and he fulfilled them.’ [2:124] The earliest scholars of the
Islamic community (ummah) disagreed about the nature of these commandments with
which Allah tested Abraham and which Abraham obeyed.”
These tests were crucial because Islam—according to Muhammad—was
the result of Abraham’s obedience. Yet the Qur’an is deficient—completely
silent on the nature of these trials and their significance. So rather than let
Allah wallow in blissful ignorance, the Companions rushed in to save the day.
Tabari II:98 “Islam consists of thirty parts, and no one ever tested with this obligation carried
it out, except Abraham.” “‘And when his Lord tried Abraham with commands,’ means that
Allah tested him with the acts of ritual purification, five in the head and five in the body.
[5+5=30] Those in the head are: trimming the mustache, rinsing the mouth, cleansing the
nostrils with water, using the toothstick, and parting the hair with the fingers. Those in the
body are: paring the nails, shaving the pubic hair, circumcision, plucking the armpit, and
washing off traces of feces and urine.”
Can’t be! Surely this is a misprint. There is no way that the adoptive father
of the world’s fastest growing religion earned the dubious honor by passing
such an inane “test.” Let’s examine another Hadith to make sure we’ve got
this right. “Allah’s words, ‘When his Lord tried Abraham with commands,’ mean that
Abraham was tested by circumcision, shaving his pubic hair, washing the fore-part and
rear, using a toothstick, trimming the mustache, paring nails, and plucking his armpits.’”
That wasn’t any better. How about this: Tabari II:99 “Abraham was tested with ten
Islamic practices: rinsing the mouth, cleansing the nostrils with water, trimming the mus-
tache, using a toothstick, plucking the armpit, paring the nails, washing finger joints, cir-
cumcision, shaving pubic hair, and washing the rear and vulva.” So after adding: “bathing
on Friday,” a fourth version gets ritualistic with: “walking around the Ka’aba, running
between Safa and Marwah, stoning pillars, and hurrying.” I disdain ritual. I am, there-
fore, unimpressed with its justification. Ritual is a tool used by power-hungry
men to condition the masses and subject them to their rule. It is a control
device for the oppressor to use against the ignorant. It separates men from God
and discourages rational inquiry. But no ritual has ever been this ridiculous.
Tabari claims that these Hadiths somehow illuminate portions of the 2nd
surah. Let’s see how: 002.118 “Those who are ignorant say: ‘Why doesn’t Allah speak to
us Himself or show us a sign?’ So said the people before them. We have indeed shown our
clear signs already.” Neither Allah nor Muhammad ever bothered to provide
any proof of divine inspiration—no signs, no miracles, no prophecies—so
this, once again, refers to the miracles of the Bible.
“Lo! We have sent you (Muhammad) with the truth, a bringer of glad tidings and a
warner. And you will not be asked about the companions of the Blazing Hell Fire.” That’s
almost funny. Allah is telling Muhammad that he won’t be asked about hell.
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19. Why then do you suppose hell is the Qur’an’s most oft repeated subject?
002.120 “Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with you unless you follow
their form of religion. Say: ‘The guidance of Allah is Guidance. … Those to whom We have
given the Book read it as it ought to be read.” The Qur’an cannot be true and con-
firm the Bible as Allah claims if Judeo-Christianity is an errant “form of reli-
gion.” And at this point the Qur’an wasn’t remotely complete; it wasn’t even
written down. Allah was therefore saying that people were doing something
that simply couldn’t be done. That would make him a liar. What’s more,
Allah was speaking to an illiterate man—one incapable of reading.
“These [Jews] believe in it; and whoever disbelieves it are losers. Children of Israel, call
to mind the special favor which I bestowed upon you, and that I [Allah] preferred you to all
others and made you excel the nations.” Muhammad was in a pickle. Without the
Jews being Yahweh’s chosen people, the prophets and scriptures upon which
he based Islam lost their relevancy. If they were irrelevant, so was Islam.
Like so much of the Qur’an, this surah provides no intelligent transition
between subjects. It has rambled on about god’s inability to provide a sign, to
telling us that Muhammad was a warner. It flip-flops from telling him not to
follow the religion of the Jews to calling the Jews God’s chosen people. Then
after condemning Christ’s mission and crucifying Muhammad’s credibility in
the process, it moves to a revisionist account of the Biblical patriarch Abra-
ham. 002.124 “And (remember) when Abraham’s Lord tried him with (certain) commands,
which he fulfilled: He said: ‘I will make you an Imam [Islamic leader] to the Nations.’ He
pleaded: ‘And also Imams from my offspring!’ He answered: ‘But My Promise does not
include evil-doers.’” The nature of the trials, or commands, which Abraham
allegedly fulfilled was not listed. Considering that the passage of these trials
made Abraham the father of Islam—the Imam of the nations—the omission
was serious. Not surprisingly, it sent the Muslim sages scurrying for answers.
Sadly, what we just reviewed was the best they could do. The Noble Qur’an
translators even include this Hadith: Bukhari:V7B72N779 “I heard the Prophet saying,
‘Five practices are characteristics of the Fitra [religion of Abraham]: circumcision, shaving
the pubic hair, cutting the moustaches short, clipping the nails, and depilating the hair of
the armpits.’” This “religion” can’t be fixed. It needs to be discarded.
Every Biblical story quoted in the Qur’an was designed to make Muham-
mad’s unprophet-like behavior seem religious or to make Islamic rituals seem
sane. The next verse was no exception. 002.125 “Remember when We made the House
a place of assembly for men and a place of safety; and the place Abraham stood to pray;
and We covenanted with Abraham and Ishmael that they should sanctify My House for
those who circumambulate it, use it as a retreat, bow down, prostrating themselves.”
002.126 “And remember [This is an odd command. What are they remembering this from?
The Bible doesn’t say anything remotely like this, and no other scriptures refer to Abra-
ham.] Abraham said: ‘My Lord, make this a City of Peace, and feed its people with fruits,
such of them as believe in Allah and the Last Day.’” Even this is odd. Muhammad
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20. was verbally attacked during the entire time he preached in Mecca. As a
result, he attacked Mecca with a large army at the end of his career, putting
him in direct opposition to the patriarch’s supposed prophecy.
“He said: ‘As for those who reject, indulge them; soon I will compel them to the doom
of the torment of Hell Fire, an evil destination!’” To compel is to induce or coerce.
Why would God want to act like Satan and coerce someone into hell?
002.127 “Remember, Abraham and Ishmael raised the foundations of the House: ‘Our
Lord! Accept this service from us.’” While I realize that no one was writing this
stuff down, and that a short pencil is more effective than a long memory, god
and his prophet ought to be able to do better. Just two verses earlier Allah said
that he had made the House. Next we learn: “‘Our Lord, make of us Muslims, sub-
missive to Your (will), and of our offspring a nation of Muslims, bowing to You; and show
us our place for the celebration of rites.’” Abraham died 2600 years before the first
Muslim was conned into Islam. In fact, the Arabic word for Muslim would-
n’t even be coined for twenty-six centuries.
Yet a nation of Muslims is how Muhammad viewed the world. The
prophet saw our planet in two pieces—the Nation of Islam (called Dar us-
Islam) and lands yet to submit, the House of War (called Dar us-Harb). And
while Islam has been at war with itself for all of its thirteen centuries, it will
continue to fight the House of War until we capitulate. Many in the Western
media and most politicians claim that the war on terrorism is unlike any other
because the terrorists come from many nations. Now you know the truth: the
terrorists represent one nation—the Nation of Islam.
002.129 “Our Lord, raise up in their midst a Messenger from among them who shall
recite to them Your revelations, and instruct them in the Book and in wisdom and make
them grow.” By the time the second surah was “revealed” Muhammad had fled
Mecca for the safety of Medina. Now in close proximity with Jews, he had a
problem. They were literate, and as a result, they were harder to fool. The
Jews undoubtedly told Muhammad that he couldn’t be God’s final messenger
because that role belonged to the Messiah. Moreover, there were hundreds of
specific prophecies regarding the Messiah, none of which he met. So what do
you suppose the wannabe Messiah did? Right. He made one up.
But for it to be believable, he had to revise Abraham first: 002.130 “He who
turns away from the religion of Abraham makes himself a fool with folly.” Abraham did
not have a religion. He had a relationship. There were no rituals, rites, pros-
trations, pilgrimages, or prescribed prayers. In fact, the word “religion” doesn’t
exist in the Torah. It can’t be found even once in all of the Old Testament.
002.131 “When his Lord said to him, ‘Be a Muslim,’ he said: ‘I submit [Islam] to the Lord of
the worlds.’” Likewise, you won’t find the words Muslim, submit, or Islam.
The revisionist Abraham said, “Our Lord, make us submissive [Islam] to You and
make of our seed a nation [of Muslims]. And show us our ways of worship.” If Abraham
received scrolls from Allah and performed the Islamic rituals, he could not
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21. have asked, “Show me the ways of worship.”
“You, only You, are the Relenting. Our Lord, raise up in their midst a messenger.” You
can almost hear Muhammad cry, “I’m that man.” Jesus has been demoted
and Abraham promoted so that Abe could vouch for the credentials of
Muhammad and thereby silence the prophet’s critics.
Muhammad believes that Allah chose Islam for Abraham and his sons,
especially Jacob, from whom all Jews are descended. 002.132 “And this was the
legacy that Abraham left to his sons by Yah’qub (Jacob); ‘Oh my sons! Allah has chosen the
Faith for you—the true religion; then die not except in the faith of Islam as Muslims. He said
to his sons: ‘What will you worship after me?’ They said: ‘We shall worship your Ilah (God),
the Ilah (God) of your fathers, of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac, the one Ilah (God): To Him
we submit in Islam.’” Why do you suppose Yahweh trifled with Judaism and
Christianity if Abe were a Muslim? And could Abraham have referred to God
as Allah if the name wouldn’t be invented for more than twenty centuries?
Even then, it was the proper name of a pagan rock idol in Arabia, not Israel.
How do you suppose Yahweh’s name could have been repeated 6,868 times
in the Bible if his name were really Allah? And there is no way to weasel out
of this predicament. Muslims scream that “Allah” is simply the Arabic word
for “God,” yet that assertion is in direct conflict with the Qur’an. In this verse
the Arabic word for “God” (capital “G”), “Ilah,” was used three times.
Alright, now that we’ve turned Jews into Muslims it’s time to condemn
them. 002.134 “Those are people whose nation has passed away. They shall reap the fruit
of what they did, They say: ‘Become Jews or Christians if you would be guided.’ Say
(Muhammad): ‘Nay! Only the Religion of Abraham the Hanif. He was not a Mushrikun [non-
Muslim disbeliever].’” The Qur’an says nothing of the religion of Abraham. It
only suggests prostrations and rituals—mindless drivel. Since the world’s
best-documented faiths are Judaism and Christianity, and their Bible intro-
duced Abraham to the world, you’d think that Islam would at least try. But
no, all we get is feeble justification for a sorry mix of pre-existing pagan rites.
“Hanifs” were monotheistic poets. While they inspired Islam’s first score
of surahs, they were not Muslims. We will discuss them in upcoming chapters.
002.136 “Say (Muslims): ‘We believe in Allah and that which is revealed to us and that
which was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the (twelve Jew-
ish) tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the prophets
received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we
have surrendered (in Islam).’” You’d think that after 1400 years, some bright Mus-
lim would ask, “What was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and Jacob?”
If Allah knows, why is he keeping it a secret? Or, why not ask, “If we Mus-
lims shouldn’t make any distinction between the revelations Moses and Jesus
received and those claimed by Muhammad, why was Islam necessary?”
If they were without distinction this cannot be true: “If they believe as you
believe they are rightly guided; but if they turn away they are in great opposition. Allah will
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22. suffice you against them.” Allah says the revelations are identical—Judaism’s,
Christianity’s, and Islam’s, and then he says “they are in great opposition.”
There is some good news. The Islamic god was a self-indulgent fool: 002.138
“(Our religion is) the Baptism of Allah: And who can baptize better than Allah?” Not only
is Allah a Jew, he’s a Baptist. And while that’s embarrassing, the symbolism is
deadly for Islam. Muslims don’t baptize, and that’s a problem if their religion
is the Baptism of Allah—especially since he’s the best Baptiser.
Baptism by water is the outward expression of having chosen Christ as
one’s savior. It is symbolic of receiving his Spirit—the spirit of Yahweh. While
the Holy Spirit is something that the Qur’an both acknowledges and con-
demns, He, like the Torah, Gospels, and Christ, plays no part in Islam. Allah
is a distant god. His spirit does not reside in man.
While we turned to this surah in an effort to connect Traditions regarding
Abraham to Allah’s account in the Qur’an, we have hit a veritable goldmine
of Islamic blunders. This may be the most grotesque of all. 002.139 “Say (unto the
People of the Scripture [Christians and Jews]): Will you dispute with us about Allah, seeing
that He is our Lord and your Lord?” Muslims, in a desperate grope for credibility, are
being told that Yahweh and Allah are the same god. It is hard to imagine a
more vulgar lie. Yahweh and Allah are love and lust, redemption and pun-
ishment, personal and remote, brilliant and dimwitted, peace and terror. They
are as different as their scriptures.
Yet this deception is essential to Islam. If Allah isn’t Yahweh, Muhammad
is a liar and the Qur’an is lunacy. There is no other justification for Muham-
mad’s reliance on Genesis and Exodus. Muslims must reconcile the irrecon-
cilable, bridging the chasm between Yahweh’s and Allah’s wholly divergent
characters. It is a desperate battle for survival that Islam cannot win.
The infinitesimal chance Islam had of prevailing with this ridiculous
assertion evaporated when the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered. The text
and message on those uncorrupted scrolls rendered impossible the compre-
hensive corruption and conspiracy that would have been necessary to make
the doctrines and gods similar, much less the same.
002.140 “Nay! Do you say that Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes were Jews
or Christians? Say: Do you know better than Allah? Who is more unjust than those who
conceal the testimony they received from Allah?” If this weren’t so stupid it would
be funny. Allah is saying that Christians and Jews call Abraham, Ishmael,
Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, “Jews and Christians,” as if they knew more
about them than Allah. Well, apparently they do. Abraham wasn’t, strictly
speaking, a Jew. He was a Chaldean from Ur as was his wife Sarah. Anyone
who has bothered to read Genesis knows that. But Allah was illiterate, just
like Muhammad. Reading Genesis was therefore beyond him. Ishmael was
the bastard child of an Egyptian slave. He was expressly excluded from Yah-
weh’s covenant with the Jews. No Jew or Christian would ever claim relations
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23. with him. Isaac, Abraham’s miracle son, provided the link between Abraham
and Jacob. Jacob was the father of the twelve tribes and was therefore a Jew—
the Jew. And last time I checked, the tribes of Israel were Jews, not Christians.
The first Christian wouldn’t be born for twenty centuries.
By this time it should be abundantly clear—Allah wasn’t God. The dark
spirit of Islam wasn’t even sane. 002.141 “The fools among the people will say: ‘What
has turned them from the Qiblah [the direction Muslims face in prayer] to which they for-
merly observed [facing Jerusalem]?’” Following the Satanic Verses, Ka’aba wor-
ship was on the rocks, so Muhammad had Muslims pray to a substitute
shrine—the only holy site in the Bible —the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. But
that didn’t last because the Jews began disputing his preposterous claims of
prophethood. Something had to be done. The answer was simple enough.
Muslims were ordered to turn away from Jerusalem and to bow toward the
House that Allah-Adam-Abraham built.
“We appointed the Qiblah which you were used to, as a hard test for those who followed
the Messenger. Indeed it was a momentous change, except to those guided by Allah.” I
don’t suppose anyone bothered to ask why bowing one direction versus another
in ritualistic prayer was such a tough test. I would think that twisting one’s
prayer blankie might be sufficient. Why go to all the trouble to twist the Torah?
002.144 “Turn your face in the direction of the sacred Mosque [the Ka’aba]. Wherever you
are, turn your faces in that direction. The people of the Book know well that this revelation
is the truth from their Lord.” Allah is saying that the Jews and Christians know
that the Ka’aba is of paramount importance to Judeo-Christianity. Further,
he is protesting that the Jews and Christians have collaborated in a massive
cover-up to keep the true importance of the pagan shrine a secret. Frankly, I
am stunned that something this obviously false and foolish could be considered
godly by anyone.
Implicit in this farce is that the Judeo-Christian focus on the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem is bogus. For this to be true, the entire Bible, starting with
Genesis 11 running through Revelation 22, would have to be fundamentally
flawed, for virtually every page is rooted in the history of Israel, and focused
on Jerusalem. To say that Jews and Christians conspired to artificially elevate
the importance of Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple at the expense of Mecca,
a town that didn’t even exist during the two thousand years the scriptures
were being written—in all sixty-six books of the Bible—is ludicrous.
Yet the stakes are unimaginably high. If Allah’s contention is wrong, then
Islam’s foundation is ripped asunder. All of the corrupted Biblical accounts
in the world won’t help. If the Islamic connection to the Hebrew prophets and
patriarchs falters, every important aspect of Muhammad’s religion fails:
Allah isn’t god; Muhammad isn’t a prophet. And if they aren’t who they
claim they are, they aren’t worthy of anyone’s prayers, allegiance, or soul.
Therein lies the tale—the ticking time bomb of Islam. There is no room
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24. for an Arab prophet with a wholly divergent message, especially one without
miracles or prophecies, in the line of Hebrews. The last messenger of the
scriptures is undeniably the Messiah, not Muhammad.
That gave the Messenger of Islam several enormous problems. He had to
claim that the Messianic prophecies were corrupted and meaningless—an
impossible task. He had to ignore the fact that Christ fulfilled them—a fool’s
folly (one sadly shared by the Jews). Then he had to somehow distort Bible
stories and characters to such an extent that it made his unprophet-like behav-
ior and ridiculous pagan rites seem religious, rational, moral, and inspired.
But that led to a new problem. How does one do that without debasing the
faith upon which the new religion is based?
It can’t be done—at least not rationally. But Islam has never been popular
with rational people. It is like acid, corroding everything it touches, eating
away at the brain and heart. It corrupts men, turning them into unthinking,
mindless murderers in pursuit of lustful pleasures. It causes Muslims to be so
fearful of the truth, they threaten to kill anyone willing to expose their lie.
Muhammad wasn’t finished telling his faithful that the Jews and the Chris-
tians had collaborated in the greatest hoax in all of recorded history. 002.146
“The people of the Book recognize him as they know their own sons; but some of them con-
ceal the truth which they themselves know.” Muhammad’s “god” is saying on
behalf of his “prophet” that the Jews recognized Muhammad as the Messiah
but were keeping it a secret. He was evidently counting on most everyone being
illiterate and naïve. And judging by the numbers of people he fooled, he may
have been right.
The trials and tribulations of Dishonest Abe, also known as a figment of
Muhammad’s imagination, end where they began—by ripping off a well-doc-
umented Bible story. Tabari II:111 “Lot bin Haran bin Terah, son of Abraham’s brother,
and his people, the folks of Sodom, traveled from Babylon following their religion. They
went to Syria as fugitives with Sarah. It is said that Terah, Abraham’s father, went with
them.” Yes, Terah was Abe’s dad, not Azar, like the Traditions have been
insisting. And yes, they were close when they said that they left Babylon. It
was actually Ur, a hundred miles south. And yes, the troop included Lot and
Sarah. They were not, however, fugitives, they had no religion, and the peo-
ple of Sodom were not with them. Lot would eventually live in Sodom, but
that wouldn’t occur for a couple of thousand miles and many years.
“Terah died. Abraham, Lot and Sarah went on to Syria and then to Egypt, which was
then ruled by a Pharaoh named Sinan bin Al-wan bin Ubayd bin Uwayj bin Imlaq bin Lud
bin Shem bin Noah. He was the brother of Dahhak/Nimrod, who had appointed him gov-
ernor of Egypt.” These boys would have been so much better off if they had just
stuck with the Biblical account rather than drumming up this nonsense. Truth
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25. is, they would have been better off if they had just stuck with Judaism and
never perverted it into Islam—and so would we.
“After this, Abraham, Lot and Sarah went back to Syria and settled in Palestine. Allah
sent Lot to the people of Sodom. They were disbelievers in Allah and immoral. Allah said,
‘You commit lewdness such as no creature before. You come into males, cut the roads, and
commit abominations in your assemblies.’” [Qur’an 29:28] Allah, please, watch the
language. They have a perfectly good word for that male thing. It’s called
homosexuality. As for the lewdness, they have a word for that too. And even
you should know it—as it was named after the town. But as for “cutting the
roads,” I’m at a loss.
Fortunately, Muslim sages are ever ready to enlighten us. Tabari II:112 “Allah’s
statement, ‘you cut the road’ means: When the traveler, the son of the road, passed by
they would block the road and perform with him that ugly deed.... Some say that they used
to shorten whoever passed by. Other say that they used to break wind in their assemblies,
while some said that they used to have intercourse with each other there.... Some Islamic
scholars agree, while others differ. The abomination was breaking wind.” I wonder if
that was why Allah taught Adam about “the fart and the little fart?” It may
have been why Muhammad revealed this pearl in Bukhari’s Book of Wudu:
Bukhari:V1B4N139 “He asked Allah’s Messenger about a person who imagined to have passed
wind during the Salat prayer. Allah’s Messenger replied: ‘He should not leave his Salat
unless he hears sound or smells something.’” You see, Islam can be tolerant.
Others say: “They would accost a rider and seize him and mount him,” explains
surah 29:28. Or: “Allah’s statement refers to the fact that no male jumped upon a male
before the people of Lot.” Then you have Muhammad’s version: “The Messenger of
God said, ‘And you commit abominations in your assemblies means they would cut off
wayfarers and mock them, and that was the abomination that they committed.’” Horror
of horrors! Being mocked was Muhammad’s curse in life. Virtually everyone
he encountered berated him.
The Messenger had a lot to say about Lot. Although Lot never preached
a day in his life and was the furthest thing from a prophet, the temptation to
transform him into a mini-Muhammad was too great to pass up. Tabari II:115 “Lot
called on them to worship Allah. By Allah’s command he tried to prohibit them from doing
those things which Allah disliked such as brigandage, committing lewd acts, and entering
males in the posteriors. Because they persisted, he threatened them with painful doom.
They rejected his admonitions, saying to him ‘Bring Allah’s doom upon us, if you are telling
the truth!’” I could have sworn that we’ve heard this story before.
“At length Lot asked his Lord for help against them, since the matter was dragging on,
as was their persistence in sinfulness. Then Allah—when he wanted to disgrace them and
destroy them and help His Messenger Lot against them—sent Gabriel and two other
angels. It had been said that the two other angels were Michael and Israfil.” Every word
of this was loaded, chosen specifically to distress Muhammad’s Meccan tor-
mentors. “Mess will me and my god will get you.”
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26. Tabari II:120 “Gabriel picked up their land with his wing and turned it over. He lifted it so
high the inhabitants of heaven heard the crowing of roosters and the barking of dogs. He
turned them upside down and rained upon them stones of clay.” [Qur’an 15:74]
The 15th surah says: “Thus did We turn it upside down, and rained down upon them
stones of what had been decreed. Surely in this are signs for those who examine. And
surely it is on a road that still abides. Most surely there is a sign in this for the believers.
The dwellers of the Rock rejected the messengers.”
Allah is daring us to use his depiction of Sodom as a proof of his divinity.
But Sodom wasn’t turned upside down, it wasn’t stoned with clay, nor was it
ever close enough to heaven for the angelic host to hear the roosters. And the
roads have long since disappeared. We know that because archeologists have
found Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain. And guess what?
They are exactly where the Bible said they would be. They were destroyed
exactly when the Bible said that they were destroyed. And yes, they were
buried exactly how the Bible proclaimed—under brimstone. Once again, the
Bible was precisely accurate, and the Muhammad/Allah team couldn’t even
plagiarize it without burying themselves.
Some of the lowlights of the versions that follow include: Tabari II:121 “Gabriel
spread out his wings and gouged out their eyes.” “Then Allah took them to Syria.” Which
is odd because that’s where we were told they were in the first place.
This next one is a hoot. There are more errors than sentences. “Gabriel
seized its girdle, then snatched it up so high into the sky that the angels could hear their
dogs. He threw rocks at the laggards, one after the other. There were three towns called
Sodom that lay between Medina and Syria. It has been mentioned that there were four mil-
lion people in the town.” Four thousand, maybe. They all had different names,
like Gomorrah, and they were unearthed on the shores of the Dead Sea.
Muhammad’s convoluted story of Lot is repeated a half dozen times in
different surahs and that many times again in the Traditions. It’s no wonder it
was the prophet’s personal favorite. He had the opportunity to turn a nobody
into a messenger whose people got pummeled because they mocked him.
We leave Volume II of Tabari with these stirring words, “O Messenger! How
many books did Allah reveal? He said, ‘One hundred and four books. To Adam He revealed
ten leaves, to Seth fifty leaves, and to Enoch thirty leaves. To Abraham he revealed ten
leaves and also the Torah, Gospel, the Zabur, and the Rurqan.’” Oops. Even Allah
knows better. The Torah wasn’t written until the time of Moses. But what
makes this statement particularly lame is that eighty-five percent of the Torah
chronicles the history of people who lived after Abraham died.
Tabari II:130 “I said, ‘O Messenger! What were the books of Abraham?’ He answered,
‘They were all proverbs such as, ‘O dominated, afflicted and deceived king! I did not send
you to collect all the world, one part to another, rather I sent you so that I would not have
to hear the cry of the oppressed.’” If they were all that feeble, it’s little wonder no
one other than the illiterate messenger ever read them.
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